Hunting

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – Funding to clean up the state’s lakes and rivers received a $25 million shot in the arm this spring, but advocates already are pushing next year’s Legislature

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — The number of breeding mallards in Minnesota may be on the decline, but that doesn’t reflect what’s happening in the rest of their range. The number of

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — The DNR this week confirmed what pheasant hunters knew last fall: the 2005 season was a stellar one. With a kill of nearly 586,000 roosters, the fall

By Tim Spielman Associate Editor La Crosse, Wis. — After nearly four years of planning, public meetings (46 of them), revisions, and review of more than 3,200 comments, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on

Subcommittee backs full funding in 2007 By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Washington — The full U.S. Senate has yet to vote on the matter, but supporters of the federal Wetlands Reserve Program are celebrating a

Rushford, Minn. (AP) — The state is buying more than a square mile of land in southeastern Minnesota from a family that wants to set the land aside for conservation. The land – 658 acres

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — For the third year in a row, the 10-year population trend for woodcock in the Central Region, which includes Minnesota, remained steady, according to estimates released recently

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — For the second consecutive year, the number of breeding mallards in the state fell precipitously, as judged by aerial surveys completed in May. The decline was “substantial,”